Parallels Between Tehran 1979 and Tehran 2009? »
Posted By tehranchik 6 months, 1 week ago in Political NewsWhen I go out into the streets now and see the crowds with their green ribbons and scarves and face-paint and balloons, it occurs to me that I am looking at a coalition of interests as complex as the one that marched along the same streets 30 years ago.
Then, liberal, middle-class, Westernised people joined in the marches eagerly because they thought the religious leaders under Ayatollah Khamenei [sic] would bring about a better Iran.
Now they are joining in because they think the marches in support of Mir Hossein Mousavi will bring down the Islamic Revolution.
Yet for his part Mr Mousavi hopes he can rescue the Islamic Revolution and make it better.
I remember interviewing him in the 1980s, and I cannot say he impressed me then as being particularly liberal; rather the contrary.
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m0k3d6 months ago
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I am running a poll to see how Obama might handle a similar protest here in America?
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